Legal Disclaimer

1. General Information & Educational Purpose

The information, tools, guides, and audio transcoding utilities provided on SC Downloader (https://sc-downloader.com/) are made available strictly for personal, educational, non-commercial, and fair-use archiving purposes. By accessing or using this website, you acknowledge and agree that your participation is entirely voluntary and conducted at your own risk.

2. Official Non-Affiliation Disclaimer

SC Downloader is an independent web utility and is NOT affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, sponsored by, or in any way officially connected with SoundCloud Global Limited & Co. KG, SoundCloud Inc., or any of their parent companies, subsidiaries, or affiliates.

The official SoundCloud website can be accessed at https://soundcloud.com.

The name "SoundCloud," along with associated trademarks, logos, emblems, wordmarks, and product designations, are registered trademarks of their respective owners. Any reference to these marks on this website is made strictly for nominative identification and informational purposes under descriptive fair use principles.

3. No Hosting or Storage of Media Files

SC Downloader does NOT host, store, mirror, database, archive, or upload any audio files, MP3 tracks, playlists, or copyrighted media assets on its servers. Our platform operates exclusively as an ephemeral transcoding proxy:

• When a user provides a public SoundCloud URL, our backend parses the public streaming playlist manifest (m3u8/HLS segments) directly from SoundCloud's Content Delivery Networks (CDNs).
• Audio fragments are transcoded on-the-fly inside volatile system memory and immediately streamed to the user's client browser.
• No audio file is saved to permanent storage, and all data buffers are flushed immediately after the streaming session terminates.

4. Third-Party Advertisements & Endorsements

To fund our cloud hosting, transcode compute nodes, and high-bandwidth CDN edge delivery without charging users, SC Downloader displays advertisements provided by third-party advertising partners, including Google AdSense.

Please be advised that:

• The appearance of third-party advertisements or sponsored links on SC Downloader does not constitute an endorsement, guarantee, representation, or recommendation by SC Downloader of any advertised product, service, website, or claim.
• SC Downloader does not control or evaluate the claims made in third-party advertisements. Users who click on advertisements or external links do so entirely at their own discretion and subject to the terms and privacy practices of those third-party advertisers.

5. User Responsibilities & Copyright Compliance

Users of SC Downloader are solely responsible for ensuring that their download activities comply with all applicable local, national, and international copyright laws and regulations. We strongly discourage any unauthorized commercial distribution, broadcasting, reproduction, or monetization of downloaded tracks.

We champion artists' intellectual property and urge our community to support creators directly by purchasing official downloads (via Bandcamp, iTunes, or Beatport), streaming tracks on authorized digital service providers, and buying concert tickets and merchandise.

6. Audio Bitrate & Quality Disclaimers

SC Downloader cannot generate or upscale audio fidelity beyond the original source quality uploaded by the creator to SoundCloud. While our transcode engine supports delivering clean 320kbps MP3 and uncompressed WAV containers when high-bitrate source master streams exist, tracks uploaded at lower source bitrates (e.g., 128kbps Opus/MP3) will reflect their natural source limits.

7. Limitation of Liability

Under no circumstances shall SC Downloader, its developers, operators, or service providers be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages arising out of your access to, use of, or inability to use this service, or any reliance placed on materials or audio streams accessed through this website.

8. Contact & Legal Notices

If you have any questions, legal concerns, or require further clarification regarding this Disclaimer, please reach out via email at contact@sc-downloader.com or visit our Contact Page. For copyright takedown requests, please refer to our DMCA Policy.